Founders Associate

Adaptyv is building an automated lab that lets AI agents run biology experiments. The company is one of the fastest growing biotech companies, trusted by leading biopharmas, frontier AI labs, and techbio companies. Its automated lab combines lab instruments reverse-engineered into API-controllable hardware, dozens of devices orchestrated through complex workflows, full observability, processing pipelines for physical-world data, and AI systems that troubleshoot production results and accelerate assay development. The company is growing rapidly and significantly expanding its lab this year. The Founders Associate will own and build the operational backbone of the company as it scales, moving across finance, customer operations, hiring, supplier relationships, and lab logistics. The role is on-site in Lausanne, Switzerland, full time, with a start date ASAP. Applicants are reviewed on a rolling basis.

Responsibilities

Own complete operational workstreams end-to-end; Use AI tools to rebuild workflows that are too manual, messy, or slow into systems that run without you; Own customer onboarding and keep the growing customer base happy as the company scales; Run finance and administrative operations, working closely with accountants and service providers; Manage supplier and service-provider relationships, including negotiation and follow-through; Drive lab expansion logistics for the new lab in Lausanne; Own internal company coordination, including events, customer visits, team operations, and the day-to-day rhythm of the company; Build lightweight tools and automations using Claude Code, Python, Notion, no-code tools, or whatever gets the job done; Design the processes and systems the company doesn't have yet and make them happen

Requirements

A track record of getting things done, such as having started, run, or owned something meaningful at a startup, side project, club, or studies; Exceptional agency and ownership; Entrepreneurial and self-directed, comfortable with ambiguity and no playbook; Strong with AI tools, especially Claude Code or Codex, used to build real workflows and tools; Hands-on, organized, and reliable, following through and not letting things fall through the cracks; Comfortable with a dynamic role where priorities change quickly and jumping between projects, responsibilities, and urgent operational needs

Nice to have

A background in biology is not a hard requirement; A genuine interest in the life sciences is important if coming from a different field